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How much do you pay for childcare for an infant?

My friend had called me earlier today asking how I'm doing with my newborn DS and when I'm planning on going back to work if I do. He told me his wife is about to go back to work and that they're having trouble finding childcare. The conversation went on for a little while and I didn't think anything of it until after we said goodbye that he may have been trying to see if I would offer to babysit their daughter everyday since our newborns are so close in age but he may not have offered since I mentioned having been so tired. I would love to be a stay at home mom and just run a little at home day care for awhile instead of going back to work. I would charge substantially less than a daycare would. I just need to know how much day cares charge for infants and I'll probably be happy with half of that.

my babysitter is a home dayare and her normal rate is 35per day. She dropped the rate for me to 25. Most bigger daycares charge even more like 50 around here. You could call daycares and see what many home plaes charge.

HA! I was just thinking about it...My first semester at school(16 weeks) I had to pay 5G for my infant son. I had to take out an extra loan and use all of my reimburstment money to afford it. When I got the state help with child care it reduced to $4, 750.72. Now I am in Detroit and my Spring Summer semester cost me 2G for 8 weeks. My worker didnt get me the childcare activated until after the fact and I asked if she could go further back in the start date so I cpuld get reimburst and it never happen so that was tough.It seems like I am the only person I know that has to pay out the ass for childcare. I hate it.